US7039388B2 - Method for providing a collect call service in a mobile communication system - Google Patents

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US7039388B2
US7039388B2 US10/380,826 US38082603A US7039388B2 US 7039388 B2 US7039388 B2 US 7039388B2 US 38082603 A US38082603 A US 38082603A US 7039388 B2 US7039388 B2 US 7039388B2
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  • the invention relates to communications systems and particularly to charging in them.
  • Prior art mobile communication systems such as the GSM system (Global System for Mobile Communication) generally employ a charging system in which the calling party normally pays for the calls made.
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communication
  • the called party pays for a call made, which is called a collect call.
  • Collect calls are implemented as follows: the calling party makes a call to the operator's exchange and asks the person on duty to call to the called party to ensure that this party is willing to pay for the call. A call is not connected between the calling party and the called party until the operator has received acceptance from the called party. Then the called party is defined as the party to be charged.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a method and an apparatus implementing the method to solve the above-mentioned problems.
  • the object of the invention is achieved with a method and an arrangement which are characterized by what is disclosed in the independent claims.
  • the term ‘communication’ refers to any kind of communication that can be set up between subscribers A and B through a communication system, such as a speech call or a data call.
  • a communication system such as a speech call or a data call.
  • the invention is used for speech calls.
  • the aim is not to restrict the invention to these embodiments.
  • the term ‘communication initiation’ refers to signalling from subscriber A for making a collect call, but the actual call is not set up as a result of the signalling; it is only enquired whether subscriber B is willing to pay for the call. If the information on whether subscriber B is willing to pay for a call coming from subscriber A is stored in a database, the communication initiation consists of subscriber A's normal call set-up request. If the collect call is set up by first transmitting an enquiry from subscriber A to subscriber B about whether subscriber B is willing to pay for the call to be set up, this enquiry transmitted from subscriber A constitutes the communication initiation.
  • the invention is based on the idea that a communications system transmits, without manual actions by the operator, the enquiries needed to check whether the called party wants to pay for a communication from a certain number or not. If the called party is willing to pay for the communication, a communication is set up automatically between the parties and the called party is defined as the payer of the communication. If the called party does not want to pay for the communication, communication set-up can be discontinued or the communication set up so that the calling party pays for it.
  • An advantage of the method and system of the invention is that no operator or other person is needed for setting up the communication, but the messages related to the call to be set up are transmitted directly between subscriber terminals and network elements.
  • subscriber B defines in advance a group of subscribers the calls from whom subscriber B wants to pay for. Identifiers describing the group of subscribers defined, such as the subscriber numbers of these subscribers, are stored in a database and it is checked in response to receiving a call set-up request whether subscriber A in question belongs to the defined group of subscribers. If subscriber A in question belongs to the defined group of subscribers, an enquiry is transmitted to subscriber B's mobile station to ask whether subscriber B accepts a collect call coming from this subscriber A. If subscriber B accepts the call, the call is connected between subscriber A and subscriber B and subscriber B is defined as the payer of the call.
  • This solution provides the advantage that in the case of some subscribers A a collect call is connected automatically. Thus subscriber B only needs to accept a collect call as a call arrives e.g. by pressing one button. This solution could be used when the parents of a family, for example, are willing to pay for all calls from their children.
  • an enquiry about whether subscriber B is willing to pay for a call to be set up between subscriber A and subscriber B is transmitted from subscriber A to subscriber B, the enquiry including an identifier which describes subscriber A. If subscriber B is willing to pay for the call, the call is connected between subscriber A and subscriber B and subscriber B is defined as the payer of the call. Thus subscriber B decides on a call-to-call basis whether he is willing to pay for the call in question or not.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of the system according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a signalling chart of a first embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the system according to the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a signalling chart of a second embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a process of defining and using a group of subscribers, according to the invention.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates portions of the intelligent network (IN) that perform specific functions, according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the system according to the invention.
  • the figure shows only the elements that are essential for understanding the invention.
  • the system shown comprises subscriber terminal A MSA, intelligent network part IN of subscriber B and a database DB connected to it for data transmission, and subscriber terminal B MSB.
  • subscriber terminal B MSB is a mobile station provided with WAP properties (Wireless Application Protocol).
  • WAP properties Wireless Application Protocol
  • the embodiment of the system according to the invention illustrated in FIG. 1 is based on the idea that a set of subscriber numbers the calls from which subscriber B is willing to pay for are defined in advance and stored in the database DB.
  • the set of numbers can be defined by subscriber terminal B MSB using the WAP technology or by a www server (World Wide Web).
  • subscriber B can at any time add subscriber numbers to the database DB or delete numbers from it.
  • subscriber terminal A MSA requests a call to subscriber B's number.
  • the intelligent network part IN of subscriber B recognizes that the reverse charging service of the intelligent network is connected for the called party MSB and compares subscriber A's number with the subscriber numbers stored in the database DB. If it is found out that subscriber A's number is among the stored subscriber numbers, a message about an incoming collect call is transmitted to subscriber terminal B MSB in step 12 using the WAP Push technology.
  • the system comprises a WAP gateway and a WTA server (Wireless Telephony Application) which the intelligent network part IN employs for communicating with the mobile station MSB.
  • subscriber B can either accept or reject the collect call. If subscriber B accepts the collect call, subscriber A can be informed that subscriber B will pay for the call in question.
  • the principle is that subscriber A always knows which party pays for the call.
  • this message can by transmitted e.g using the WAP Push technology, as a short message or as a voice announcement. If subscriber A's number is not found among the numbers stored in the database DB, a collect call is not set up. A call can, however, be set up in the normal manner, in which case subscriber A pays for the call.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates the process of defining and using a listing of users in the database DB for which a collect call will be accepted from.
  • a group of subscribers have been selected in advance as subscribers for whom subscriber B is willing to pay for. That group, in step 502 , is stored in the database through the use of indentifiers.
  • a request is transmitted to the database to determine whether subscriber A belongs to the group of subscribers. As discussed above, this method may be used, of the set up in the normal manner may occur.
  • subscriber A has a prepaid account, he may call to all subscribers who have the reverse charging service in use even though the prepaid account were empty because subscriber B pays for the whole call after he has agreed to receive the collect call.
  • the reverse charging service can also be implemented differently from the example described above, i.e. an enquiry about whether he will pay for the call is transmitted to subscriber B with each incoming call.
  • the intelligent network notes that subscriber B is a subscriber who has subscribed to the reverse charging service, but it is not decided on the basis of subscriber A's number whether the call is a collect call or a normal call paid for by subscriber A. It is also possible to connect the two service described above so that subscriber B always pays for all calls coming from the numbers stored in the database, and in the case of all other subscriber numbers subscriber B is given the opportunity to pay for the calls.
  • IP address Internet Protocol
  • FIG. 2 is a signalling chart of the first embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • a call first arrives at the mobile services switching centre MSC of subscriber B, in which case the visitor location register VLR is used for recognizing that subscriber B has a reverse charging service in use.
  • the reverse charging service is connected by a service switching point SSP.
  • a triggering message is sent to the intelligent network IN to implement the service.
  • the intelligent network IN recognizes that the service concerned is a WTA service and defines subscriber B as the party to be charged.
  • the intelligent network part IN asks the WTA server to send a message about an incoming collect call coming to subscriber B.
  • step 23 the message is forwarded to the WAP gateway, from which the message is transmitted to subscriber B in step 24 .
  • the message arrives at a user agent UA of subscriber B, which is the element that communicates with the WAP gateway.
  • step 25 a message in which subscriber B is asked whether he accepts an incoming collect call is shown on the display of subscriber B's mobile station.
  • step 26 subscriber B accepts the collect call from subscriber A.
  • step 27 the network layer NL of subscriber terminal B is informed that it should wait for a call from subscriber A's number. In that case subscriber B's mobile station answers a call coming from subscriber A automatically and does not react to other calls.
  • step 28 a speech channel is connected between subscriber A and subscriber B.
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the second embodiment of the system according to the invention.
  • the figure shows only the elements that are essential for understanding the invention.
  • the system shown comprises subscriber terminal A MSA, network, WTA server WTA and subscriber terminal B MSB.
  • subscriber terminal A MSA and subscriber terminal B MSB are mobile stations provided with WAP properties.
  • WAP gateways (not shown) between the mobile stations MSA, MSB and the WTA server, the gateways being used for transmitting messages according to the WAP technology.
  • the embodiment of the system according to the invention illustrated in FIG. 2 is based on the idea that in step 31 subscriber A sends a request related to a collect call and intended for subscriber B from his WAP phone to the WTA server via the network.
  • the message is forwarded to subscriber B in step 32 using the WAP Push technology.
  • subscriber B responds to the enquiry. If subscriber B accepts the set-up of a collect call, the collect call is connected between subscriber A and subscriber B.
  • a WAP Push message saying that subscriber B will pay for the call can also be transmitted to subscriber A. If subscriber B refuses to pay for the call, the call can be connected, but subscriber A will pay for it. In this case a message can also be transmitted to subscriber A.
  • the principle is that subscriber A always knows which party pays for the call.
  • subscriber A has a prepaid account, he can also in this case ask for a reverse charging service from all subscribers even though the prepaid account were empty, because subscriber B pays for the whole call after he has agreed to receive the collect call.
  • FIG. 4 is a signalling chart of the second embodiment of the method according to the invention.
  • subscriber A initiates the set-up of a collect call by making a collect call request with his WAP mobile station MSA.
  • the WML (Wireless Markup Language) deck needed for this is stored in a subscriber-specific memory.
  • subscriber A wants to make a collect call, he keys in e.g. subscriber B's MSISDN number (Mobile Subscriber International ISDN number) in the place of the collect call request in the WAP menu of his mobile station.
  • MSISDN number Mobile Subscriber International ISDN number
  • a Get URL message (Uniform Resource Locator) is transmitted from the user agent of subscriber A's mobile station MSA to the WAP gateway.
  • the message is forwarded to the WTA server.
  • the WTA server of subscriber A generates the content of a message to be transmitted to subscriber B.
  • Subscriber B's MSISDN number is obtained from the URL message and subscriber A's MSISDN number is added to the content of the message to be transmitted to subscriber B.
  • the WTA server transmits the message to the WAP gateway, which in step 44 forwards information on a collect call request to subscriber B's user agent as a WAP Push message.
  • a message saying that subscriber A requests reverse charging service from subscriber B is shown on the display of subscriber B's mobile station.
  • subscriber B responds that he accepts the collect call requested by subscriber A.
  • subscriber B's response is transmitted to the network layer of the mobile station.
  • the set-up of the collect call is initiated in the direction of subscriber B.
  • the invention was implemented in a GSM network.
  • the aim is not to restrict the invention to these embodiments.
  • the present invention can also be implemented in a third generation ( 3 G) mobile system, such as UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), or in an IP based network.
  • 3 G third generation
  • the IN includes a WAP Gateway, a WTA Server and possibly a WWW Server, depending on the embodiment of the invention.
  • the interface with the database DB includes read/write element to read data from the database and to cause data to be written to the database, as well as a checker to determine whether a match with a particular value has occurred.
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